CHAPTER 15: Crucible of Freedom: Civil War, 1861–1865
Chapter Outline: The evidence of history (Complete an outline of the chapter using an
outline style of your choice. This outline must be hand-written by you. You may put this
outline in any format you want. Your outline should be 4-6 pages, (no more than 6) plus 1
paragraph of 4-5 sentences for each of the short essay questions. You may not get
assistance from another student on this outline.) You should know how the following
terms, people, groups, issues, and events relate to this period of American History.
All page numbers are based on the 7th edition. Online page #’s may be different.
different. Introduction: Read the introduction on p. 427-428
Fort Sumter
Union
Confederate
Mobilizing for War (p. 429-433)
mobilizing
recruitment
conscription
financing
war bonds
Legal Tender Act
National Bank Act
Jefferson Davis
Radical Republicans
habeas corpus
Ulysses S. Grant
guerillas
West Virginia
border states
Ex parte Merryman
In Battle, 1861-1862 (p. 433-442)
industrial capacity
railroad track submarine
repeating rifle
Springfield or Enfield rifles
trenches
Battle of Fredericksburg
Anaconda Plan
First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas)
George McClellan
Robert E. Lee
Battle of Antietam
Ulysses S. Grant
Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
Corinth
William T. Sherman
Battle of Shiloh
soldiers’ war
ironclads
“cotton diplomacy”
Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Transforms the War, 1863 (p. 442-449)
confiscation
emancipation “contrabands”
Freedmen’s Bureau
black soldiers
Frederick Douglass
slavery in wartime
turning point
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Vicksburg
War and Society, North and South (p. 449-457)
economic impact
Homestead Act
Morrill Land Grant Act
food riots and shortages
dissent
New York City Draft Riots
United States Sanitary Commission
Clara Barton Florence Nightingale
Woman’s National Loyal League
The Union Victorious,
Eastern Theater
George McClellan
burning of Atlanta
medical war
1864-1865 (p. 457-462)
Grant
Sherman
election of 1864
Copperhead
Thirteenth Amendment
Sherman’s March
“Sherman neckties”
Appomattox Court House
war’s costs
Short Essays. Answer these questions with one paragraph of 4-5 sentences for each sentence.
Always use complete sentences.
1. How successfully did the governments and economies of the North and South respond to the
pressures of war?
2. How did the issue of emancipation transform the war?
3. In what lasting ways did the Civil War change the United States as a nation?
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